The JOY Broadcast

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About this episode
This might be one of the most important conversations Ali has ever brought to The Joy Broadcast. It's the work she returns to with every Brilliance client. It's the work she returns to with herself, every morning, before her feet hit the floor.
Your values.
Not the easy answer of "integrity and honesty". The real ones. The ones you can rattle off when someone asks who you are. The ones that become your path, your conviction, your courage, your antidote.
Because as Ali says: when you know who you are, you can stand tall when the poison arrows come. You don't need to zip yourself up in an energetic sleeping bag. You don't need to be the eggshell, terrified of cracking. You get to be the peach, soft on the outside, with a kernel so strong the world can't break it.

What's inside this episode
A genuine, behind-the-scenes share, Ali reading from her own journal, walking you through:
Why values matter more than your job title, your achievements, or your CV
The peach vs. the egg: how values become inner strength rather than outer armour
Why values are the better, freer alternative to boundaries
How values become the antidote when someone tries to define you, attack you, or shrink you
The exercise: blank sheet, brain dump, cluster, distil. Finding the one word that carries it all
Ali's own six core values and what each one really means to her: Genuine, Generosity, Gratitude, Grit, Growth, Grace
Why she added Grace as a sixth value at the end of 2024: softening, surrender, dignified strength
How to use your values as a lens on your big goals. The journal exercise Ali did when she declared she wanted to make a lot of money, have a lot of fun, and help a lot of people, and had to clean up every place that desire collided with who she is

A line worth holding onto
"My values are the path I walk every day. I don't need boundaries, because I know who I am, and I know the path I'm walking."

Your invitation
If something in this stirred you, triggered you, activated you, that's the friction worth listening to. Go and do the work. Get the blank sheet. Write everything down. Cluster. Distil. Define. And then live them.

Links & next steps
🌿 The Joy Brief, Monday 11th May edition (free I Know Me, I Love Me Life Lab): Subscribe for weekly exclusive JOY Brief offers.
✨ The Joy Rebellion, where the Life Labs live, plus the full library, the community, and Ali in your week: Join the Joy Rebellion. £22/month or £222/year
💛 Brilliance, Ali's six-month private mentorship for women with big dreams, big goals, and the readiness to do this work properly. Apply here.
🎙️ Subscribe to The Joy Broadcast so you don't miss next week's episode.
📲 Come and find Ali on Instagram and continue the conversation. She'd love to hear what came up for you.
The answer is always joy. Love always, Ali x
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Welcome back after the Easter break. This week I'm sharing two tools I've been using personally and walking my Brilliance clients through over recent weeks — because when I find myself saying the same thing on repeat in private sessions, I know it's time to broadcast it.
The first is what I've started calling the shit and the diamonds — the recognition that life rarely hands you triumph in every area at once. Your career might be hitting milestones while your home life is heavy. Your relationship might be thriving while work is falling apart. The trick isn't to pretend the hard stuff isn't there. It's to stop letting it smother the good stuff. The woman in you holds the emotional work. The CEO in you leads the diamonds. Two hands. Don't clap them together.
The second tool is one I've been teaching for years and had a fresh personal breakthrough with this week — the Russian Doll effect. I don't believe in finding yourself or becoming her. I believe every version of you you've ever been is still valid, still wise, still part of who you are now. But sometimes, after a betrayal or a trauma, we leave a doll behind. We abandon a version of ourselves we decided wasn't safe to be anymore. This week I went back for two of mine, the trusting woman I left in 2016, and the financially independent corporate professional I left in 2014, and the relief of putting them back inside me is what this episode is really about.
This is deeper work than usual. Take it as an invitation.

Favourite Quote:
"It's like you've got a pile of shit in one hand and a bag of diamonds in the other. Don't clap your hands together.""I don't believe in finding yourself. I believe in remembering yourself.""Every version of you is valid."
Work with me
The Joy Rebellion: my membership where we lock in your joy every single week. Coaching, mentoring, celebration, community. Doors are always open. Joy Rebellion link 
Brilliance: private one-to-one mentorship for when you're navigating something genuinely shitty and need deeper support. Book a conversation and we'll see where you fit. Brilliance link
The Joy Brief: the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from - the quick links & weekly exclusive offers Joy Brief link

If this episode landed
Send it to a woman who's currently holding diamonds in one hand and something much heavier in the other. And if you have a Russian Doll story, a version of yourself you're ready to welcome back, I'd love to hear it. My DMs and inbox are always open.
Subscribe so you don't miss next week. And if you've got a moment, a rating or review helps more women find The Joy Broadcast.
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What do you wear on the day you've been made redundant? The day your confidence is on the floor? The day you're trying to remember who the hell you are without the job title?
This week on The Joy Broadcast, I'm joined by the wonderful Dahlia Stroud, someone I haven't seen for the best part of 15 years, since our Asda House days in Leeds. Dahlia went from Head of Commercial with a full diary and a ringing phone to "here one day, gone the next" overnight. And out of that lost-purpose, all-dressed-up-with-nowhere-to-go season, she built Stressed But Well Dressed, a podcast (and a philosophy) about the link between clothes, confidence, and mindset.
This one is for every woman who has ever asked herself, who am I now?  and every woman who already knows that what she puts on in the morning is never really just about the outfit.
Favourite moments
"I was all dressed up with nowhere to go." — Dahlia, on the season that birthed the podcast"Joy isn't fluff, it's fucking physics.""The opposite of happiness isn't sadness — it's hopelessness.""Dress for the best-case opportunity that could absolutely happen." — Dahlia"Well-dressed is a state of mind, not a fashion statement." — Dahlia

Find Dahlia
Podcast: Stressed But Well Dressed , out every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts
Instagram: @stressedbutwelldressed_podcast
LinkedIn: Dahlia Stroud
Continue your journey with JOY
If this one stirred something, the question of who am I now, or the quiet wondering about whether you're dressing for the day you're actually hoping for — come and stay close.
The Joy Brief  the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from, be first to know about the podcasts, Substack articles and exclusive weekly offers.
The Joy Rebellion the membership community for women choosing joy as their competitive edge
Joy in HD™  the mastercourse that teaches you your unique blueprint to amplify your JOY and accelerate your success in health, wealth & matters of the heart.
alimortimer.com for everything else
Remember, JOY is Just On You. Put something on this morning that the 80-year-old you will be glad you wore.
Ali x

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There's a reason you walk into some rooms and immediately feel at ease and others that leave you flat without knowing why. This week's guest has built her whole practice around that mystery, and the answer almost always comes back to one thing: colour.
Becky Harrison is an interior designer, psychology graduate, and Joy Rebellion member who brings a beautifully grounded, science-meets-soul approach to how we live in our homes. After 16 years in corporate project management — where her love for buildings quietly grew — she made the leap into design. Now she helps families create homes that don't just look good, but feel good. And she's doing it right now from inside her own renovation project, which makes this conversation all the more real.
We talk colour, obviously. But we also go much deeper: into fear, judgment, Feng Shui, the psychology of clutter, and why the first question Becky asks a client has nothing to do with their favourite shade.
Becky's quick-win tips you can use right now:
Create a joy corner — a dedicated spot in your home with the things that bring you joy close at hand: candles, crystals, books, whatever's yours. Having it set up means you can access joy quickly without hunting for it.
Build happy views — little vignettes at your desk or at the table. A piece of artwork, some flowers, something that catches your eye and delivers a small shot of dopamine while you work.
Bring in pops of colour through nature — daffodils on the windowsill, a yellow vase, an orange throw. Small changes to the colour in a room lift the energy, which lifts your mood.
Connect with Becky:
Instagram: @beckyharrisondesigns 
Website: beckyharrisondesigns.co.uk
Becky works primarily across the south west of England but will travel for the right project. If you want to embrace colour in your home, she's your person.
Loved this episode?
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And if this conversation sparked something, share it with a friend who's been staring at Farrow & Ball paint cards for six months and still hasn't committed.
The Joy Broadcast is hosted by Ali Mortimer - Joy coach, Private Life Confidante, Human Design guide, author, and founder of The Joy Rebellion.

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As part of our Easter inspiration series, celebrating women who inspire me and whose stories I know will inspire you, I'm joined by the wonderful Steph McConachy, founder of Nine Lemons Feng Shui. We met through the magic of Instagram and our mutual friend Kimberly Gallagher, and I have loved watching Steph's extraordinary journey unfold. In just three months, she grew her audience from 3,000 to 30,000 followers and she credits Feng Shui.
This conversation is joyful, practical, and deeply moving. We talk about the power of your home to support your life, your business, and your healing, and how making small, intentional changes to your space can create profound shifts in everything from your visibility to your nervous system.
What We Cover
🍋 Why nine lemons? The story behind the name, from the power of the number nine in Feng Shui (we're in Cycle Nine!) and a secret nod to Real Housewives, to the Susan Jeffers "nine grid" and why a full life is the ultimate insurance policy.
🗺️ The Bagua Map explained. The nine areas of your life mapped to your home: knowledge, career, helpful people, family, health, children and creativity, wealth, fame and reputation, and love. Steph walks us through how she reads a floor plan and what she can tell about someone's life just from where the bathrooms are.
📈 How Steph went from 3,000 to 30,000 followers in three months by intentionally activating the fame, visibility and recognition area of her home, cleaning the windows, replacing dull bulbs, placing a plant, and setting clear, specific intentions.
🌿 The power of intention setting. Why Feng Shui is not just putting lemons on a bench. How to speak to your home, talk to your plants, and use the nine areas as a 3D vision board for the life you want to create.
🏠 Your home holds energy. Steph shares her deeply personal story of losing her son, buying a house in grief, and eventually using Feng Shui to reclaim her space and move forward. This led to her brand new programme Reclaim Your Space, for anyone navigating a major life transition.
💼 The command position. Why where you sit at your desk matters more than you think, how cortisol levels drop when your back is against a wall, and why so many brilliant women are running seven-figure businesses from a corner of the spare room, shoved aside for a bed that gets used seven nights a year.
🌍 Finding peace when the world feels uncertain. Why your home is your greatest source of empowerment right now, and the small acts of care that bring you back to safety.
Steph's Offers
 Let It Go — a 7-day container to release "past self anchors" (not just decluttering, but energetically letting go)
 Reclaim Your Space — a brand new 4-week programme to shake the energy of your home through transition, grief, change, or a fresh start
 The Energetic Advantage — a 6-month deep dive (next round opening May)
👁️ One-to-one work — private Feng Shui consultations, email me [email protected]
Find Steph
📱 Instagram: @ninelemonsfengshui 
www.ninelemonsfengshui.com

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